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Why Study History?The discipline of history focuses on critical analysis of text-based evidence from the past and seeks a detailed, complex understanding of individual and collective human behaviors as they have emerged, intersected, and altered over time. Historical study examines and attempts to explain processes of change over time as they pertain to cultures, nations, institutions, value systems, and other major social phenomena. Historians also consider and outline patterns of causation

Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, and Yad Vashem. Her research interests are in Holocaust and genocide studies, migration, refugees, and humanitarian responses to crisis.Christopher Browning Christopher R. Browning was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill until his retirement in May 2014. Before taking up this position in the fall of 1999

Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, and Yad Vashem. Her research interests are in Holocaust and genocide studies, migration, refugees, and humanitarian responses to crisis.Christopher Browning Christopher R. Browning was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill until his retirement in May 2014. Before taking up this position in the fall of 1999

Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, and Yad Vashem. Her research interests are in Holocaust and genocide studies, migration, refugees, and humanitarian responses to crisis.Christopher Browning Christopher R. Browning was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill until his retirement in May 2014. Before taking up this position in the fall of 1999

Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, and Yad Vashem. Her research interests are in Holocaust and genocide studies, migration, refugees, and humanitarian responses to crisis.Christopher Browning Christopher R. Browning was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill until his retirement in May 2014. Before taking up this position in the fall of 1999

Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, and Yad Vashem. Her research interests are in Holocaust and genocide studies, migration, refugees, and humanitarian responses to crisis.Christopher Browning Christopher R. Browning was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill until his retirement in May 2014. Before taking up this position in the fall of 1999

Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, and Yad Vashem. Her research interests are in Holocaust and genocide studies, migration, refugees, and humanitarian responses to crisis.Christopher Browning Christopher R. Browning was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill until his retirement in May 2014. Before taking up this position in the fall of 1999

Conference Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, and Yad Vashem. Her research interests are in Holocaust and genocide studies, migration, refugees, and humanitarian responses to crisis.Christopher Browning Christopher R. Browning was the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill until his retirement in May 2014. Before taking up this position in the fall of 1999

provided the basis for advanced medical, legal, and theological studies. Renaissance humanism dedicated itself to the recovery of the classical heritage under the watchword ad fontes (“return to the sources”). Besides new understandings of art and civic life, humanism revived the study of Greek and Hebrew that enabled Luther’s biblical studies, his reform of late medieval theology, and translation of the Bible into German, the language of the people. His insistence that Christian life is rightly marked

Chemistry Dr. Fred L. Tobiason to support PLU students engaged in studies related to our outdoor learning spaces and natural areas. This supports a campus tradition in which students’ environmental actions and values are intentionally and locally aligned, and empower students to work toward change. All PLU students who are excited to work independently as individuals or in a group, and who are passionate about plant and animal sustainability and outdoor learning, regardless of their major, are